Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. J. Rose

When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.

John Waters

Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is ""God is crying."" And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is ""Probably because of something you did.

Gertrude Stein

How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.

Nick Hornby

Have you got any soul?"" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.

The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn't get more meat, I'll just say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?

Nancy Farmer

I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.

Katie Price

I never ask anyone for anything. I've just not been brought up like that.

Sathya Baba

Service has been defined as Love made manifest . Baba repeatedly asks us to expand our hearts to include all humanity. He tells us that to care only for our own interests and those of our families is a constriction of our heart. Such constriction eventually results in loneliness and unhappiness -- as indeed we can see all around us, for it is the malady of the present age.

Edward P. Jones

The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.

Brigitte Nielsen

Im 48 now and I would like to have another baby. I would love to because of all the things I have learned. It would be like starting all over again. But am I too old? Im young at heart and I would be different this time round.

Charles Bukowski

After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.

Alex Campbell

I am glad to go with my wife and baby boy.

Alex Campbell

I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are.

Alec Baldwin

I was very competitive with my brothers when I was younger. Now we are all in completely different worlds. Im not in direct competition with my brothers for anything, ever. Stephen and I and Billy and I are better at staying in touch with each other. Danny is married, he has a new baby and he is very peripatetic, he goes to golfing tournaments and charity things. He really travels a lot.

Ali MacGraw

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

Ali Smith

A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.

Millie Ortiz

When the porch was done, I started looking around for some (lions), but you can't buy the big ones up here, so I decided to put the baby ones on to see how they looked.

Gene Mauch

For a few weeks after that, every morning when I woke up, I felt it in my stomach, ... Like a hot dagger in my belly button.

William Farmer

It's a lot of work, but this is the kind of thing you have to do when you put a new program in; it's just inevitable and you learn to live with it and do what you need to do and move on.

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Daniel Handler

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

Thomas Murray

I lost everything, mister, everything -- credibility, business,

Garth Nix

I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

Dick Bennett

He totally lost his composure. He totally played into their hands. He had been playing so well.

James Billups

He told me that he lost it but that he didn't snap.

Kay Granger

I don't know how you can sleep at night, ... You lost the battle.

Michael Charles

I didn't know what else to do. I lost everything.

Mike Sanford

I don't think it was 10 to 12 yards. We were soft on Spencer.

Cat Osterman

It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.

Jennie Finch

College softball each year reaches new levels of interest.

Greg Norman

I am a winner. I just didn't win today.

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Stephen Sommers

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.

Kevin Hart

I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's how I stay level-headed. That's what keeps me going.

Chris Farley

I have what doctors call a little bit of a weight problem.

Maria Sharapova

I don't do heavy weights at all.

Martina McBride

I was always thin. I guess I have good genes, so I never worried too much about my weight.

George Steinbrenner

If you don't have a hernia yet then you're not pulling your own weight!

Janet Evanovich

It wasn't exactly that Lula was fat. It was more that she was too short for her weight." - Stephanie Plum

Jill Scott

Once I started looking for a record deal, I had a trainer. And the trainer told me that I would never sell a record if I didn't lose weight.

Isaac Marion

What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.

Joely Richardson

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.